In case you have missed what had happened last week, this article will bring back in the news. These are the latest five major releases beginning with August 14.

1) Reason – your virtual studio rack with all that you need to turn your ideas into music

Reason is one of the most complete audio mixing tools on the market today. It combines complete recording tools with some of the best mixing consoles and equalizers into a single, integrated tool. With it, you’ll have access to multiple channels, multiple, parallel racks, and tons of effects. Reason’s fully equipped mixing desk adds a big studio signal chain to all your sound sources.

3D design software for many ordinary people may be unfamiliar. Whenever you want to promote an image, web page, display text or graphics to add effect, your first thought may send you to tools like 3DSMax or to more complicated tools like, Photoshop. Thankfully, you don’t have to go down that road. Instead, you can use Maker 3D from Aurora 3D Software.

Microsoft Studios brings back their popular RTS franchise, with Age of Empires Online. In this new chapter the player has to build mighty empires, manage resources, earn rewards, and battle his way into rich new worlds full of lively villagers, epic warriors, and historically-themed architecture. It’s like the whole classic gameplay concept has been improved in order to deliver awesome moments in an online environment.

Mozilla has released the sixth “major” version of Firefox. Unlike the fourth version which was by all means a true major update, Firefox 6 suffers from the same lack of new features and improvements like Firefox 5. Besides its number, the sixth version hasn’t been changed at all. This latest version does nothing else but to fix some security issues and to change some minor undercover features.